Jacques Duron

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Jacques Duron (born April 24, 1904 in Montluçon , † November 23, 1974 ) was a French poet, Romanist and music writer.

life and work

Jacques-Robert Duron completed his habilitation in 1945 at the Sorbonne with the two theses La pensée de Georges Santayana ( 1st Santayana en Amérique , Paris 1950) and Manuel bibliographique de la philosophie anglo-américaine contemporaine 1875-1930 . As head of the literature department in the Ministry of Culture, he edited the language maintenance magazine Vie et Langage from 1952 in collaboration with Alain Guillermou and was the actual initiator of the French language biennials that have been held since 1965 (Namur 1965, Quebec 1967, Liège 1969, Menton 1971, Dakar 1973 , Echternach 1975, Moncton 1977, Jersey 1979, Lausanne / Aostatal 1981, Lisbon 1983, Tours 1985, Marrakech 1987, Quebec 1989, Lafayette 1991, Avignon 1993, Bucharest 1995, Neuchâtel 1997, Ouagadougou 1999, Ottawa / Hull 2001, La Rochelle 2003 (Brussels 2005, Dakar 2007, Sofia 2009, Tallinn 2011, Bordeaux 2013).

In Duron's book Langue française, langue humaine (Paris 1963), “the constant claims to the international status of French [...] end in conceit and excess” (Söll 1983 [1970], p. 303).

Other works

  • Poèmes retrouvés , Geneva 1954
  • Values. Figures signifiantes et messages pour notre temps , Paris 1972

literature

  • Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française. La poésie du XXe siècle. 1, Paris 1982, p. 528
  • Ludwig Söll, aspects of contemporary French language , in: The French language of today , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Darmstadt 1983, pp. 286–305 (originally in: Die neueren Sprachen 69, 1970, pp. 589–602)
  • Richard Baum, On the problem of norms in contemporary French, in: The French language of today , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Darmstadt 1983, pp. 366–410 (here: 385)

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personal data
SURNAME Duron, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duron, Jacques-Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet, Romanist and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Montluçon
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 1974